The new face of underage drinking: teenage girls

The Christian Science Monitor
Elizabeth Armstrong and Christina McCarroll
July 8, 2004

Teenage girls are pushing the long established rules about drinking alcohol: they, and not boys, are the majority of young people using alcohol these days. Jean Kilbourne, a continuing research scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, points out that these girls believe that to be sexy is to drink, and along with being a tool for seduction, alcohol promises empowerment and liberation for these young girls.

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